afrimesh
The ability to easily create an IP network in rural areas, developing countries and disaster zones can significantly contribute to the ability of people to communicate with each other.
Afrimesh builds on top of the most excellent B.A.T.M.A.N. project to provide a simple management dashboard which enables network operators to create and sustain a resilient communications network with a minimum of fuss.
For the first release we are working hard towards simplifying common tasks such as managing clients, maintaining network maps, monitoring the network and managing bandwidth.
The current status of the software should still be considered pre-alpha and it is only recommended that you check out the source code if you are comfortable with a unix shell, know your way around a text editor and are able to find and follow the badly written directions on the wiki.
Binary packages are coming and will support the following environments:
* FreeBSD
* OpenWRT
* OpenWRT + R.O.B.I.N.
* Ubuntu
Future development direction will be largely determined by demand from users but some ideas that have already come up include customer billing management, telephony integration and support for building social apps that connect mesh users with each other.
The source code is licensed under the New BSD License and is hosted at:
http://code.google.com/p/afrimesh
Finally, a very big thank you to each of Ajay, Chris, George & Kobus from the Meraka Institute of the CSIR, Sebastian from wire.less.dk and Steve from the Shuttleworth Foundation for the many contributions that have made this project possible.
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